The creation of colonies in the Americas that led to the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries. There are a lot of contributions that we didn't even knew had such a big impact on our world. The Columbian exchange is the type of contribution of the old world to the new and the new world to the old. Some examples that affected our world majorly are horses and how the impacted farms, maize (corn) was important for humans and animals for food, and smallpox how it affected So many families and how they got through it.
No European domestic animal however had a bigger impact on the new world people than the horse. Horses were a …show more content…
Corn produce more food per acre then wheat and any other crop imported to America from Europe. The leaves covering the ears of the corn help to protect the kernels from hail, birds, insects, and drought. People can eat corn raw as well as roasted on the cob, baked into bread, popped and made into corn meal mush. Indian farmers had created corn from wild grass several thousand years ago. By carefully selecting seed kernels and controlling pollination, farmers gradually increase the size of the ears of the corn. Human must plant seed corn for it to grow because the leave husk protecting the kernels prevent natural germination. The farmer's insert several corn kernels into small hills about a yard apart and added fish heads or bird guano as fertilizer. Then they planted beans, squash, and other vegetables among the hills. This method of cultivation called Milpa farming prevented exhaustion of the soil and produce a balance of human …show more content…
A person caught this disease by breathing in the smallpox virus or by coming into contact with the pus filled boils or scabs on a victim's skin. Death often occurred after a high fever, the eruption of of boils, and massive vomiting of blood. Survivors were also usually immune from other smallpox infections. The first smallpox epidemic in the new world beginning 1518 on Hispaniola among the Taino. Within 100 years the Taino were extinct mainly due to smallpox and other diseases. The Taino disaster was repeated many times in the New World. The native people had no experience with quarantines. Their medicines and religious beliefs could not stop the sickness. The epidemics struck down their leaders, farmers, and warriors leaving few to care for or protect those who might have survived. In 1837 to 1838 smallpox killed up to 50% of North American Plains Indians. Most historians now agree that over a period of about 300 years about 90% of new world people died of Old World diseases are related causes such as lack of care and starvation. Taking the average of low and high estimates of people living in the Western Hemisphere before 1492 (65 million) at least 58.5 million people would have
No European domestic animal however had a bigger impact on the new world people than the horse. Horses were a …show more content…
Corn produce more food per acre then wheat and any other crop imported to America from Europe. The leaves covering the ears of the corn help to protect the kernels from hail, birds, insects, and drought. People can eat corn raw as well as roasted on the cob, baked into bread, popped and made into corn meal mush. Indian farmers had created corn from wild grass several thousand years ago. By carefully selecting seed kernels and controlling pollination, farmers gradually increase the size of the ears of the corn. Human must plant seed corn for it to grow because the leave husk protecting the kernels prevent natural germination. The farmer's insert several corn kernels into small hills about a yard apart and added fish heads or bird guano as fertilizer. Then they planted beans, squash, and other vegetables among the hills. This method of cultivation called Milpa farming prevented exhaustion of the soil and produce a balance of human …show more content…
A person caught this disease by breathing in the smallpox virus or by coming into contact with the pus filled boils or scabs on a victim's skin. Death often occurred after a high fever, the eruption of of boils, and massive vomiting of blood. Survivors were also usually immune from other smallpox infections. The first smallpox epidemic in the new world beginning 1518 on Hispaniola among the Taino. Within 100 years the Taino were extinct mainly due to smallpox and other diseases. The Taino disaster was repeated many times in the New World. The native people had no experience with quarantines. Their medicines and religious beliefs could not stop the sickness. The epidemics struck down their leaders, farmers, and warriors leaving few to care for or protect those who might have survived. In 1837 to 1838 smallpox killed up to 50% of North American Plains Indians. Most historians now agree that over a period of about 300 years about 90% of new world people died of Old World diseases are related causes such as lack of care and starvation. Taking the average of low and high estimates of people living in the Western Hemisphere before 1492 (65 million) at least 58.5 million people would have